We
had a pretty crazy week.
Monday was biasa aja(just normal). Elder Johnson likes to
just rest and take it easy on p-days, so we just emailed, cleaned and
slept/wrote some letters. So hopefully you all will be getting some soon (sorry
I'm pretty bad at that haha).
Selasa(Tuesday) was pretty great. We spent the night at the
Assistants house on Monday and went on splits with them on Tuesday. I got to go
with my good friend Elder Grundvig, who is a STELLAR missinary. It was a ton of
fun. At one point, we had an appointment at the church but we awkwardly
realized that we didn't have keys to the church right before our appointment,
so we had to find somewhere to sit down to teach. We saw this cafe and we went
in but we thought we have to buy something. it was all SUPER expensive, so we got
the cheapest thing, not really knowing what it was haha. never the best idea.
Luckily it wasn't beer or Champagne like Steph experienced but it was this one
tiny thing that cost twenty times what we usually paid for it uggh haha. But it
was a good appointment. We also got to teach a referral that I had given to
them, so that was cool. Anyways just an all around great day, awesome to work
with Elder Grundvig.
Then that night, we made... WAFFLES!! Because the
assistants have a waffle iron, but they have never used it! We were all stoked,
we bought syrup and REAL whipped cream. Sadly we are all terrible at making
waffles, so it was kind of a disaster. But hey, you put whipped cream and syrup
on anything, it's pretty delicious!
Wednesday and Thursday were just normal.
On Friday, we brought our Bekasi District Leader Elder
Forston (who is my beloved friend from the MTC) and his new companion, fresh
from the states Elder Earl up to split with them. It was awesome!! I got to go
with Elder Earl - he is a way cool kid from Utah. Super positive and just a
great missionary. We had an awesome and quite unique day haha We had four
different appointments at the church and also taught English Class. So we were
just at the church pretty much the entire, which is a good thing because we
were teaching the entire day, but it was definitely weird to be at the church
that long. it was great though - we found a new investigator and taught some
other investigators that are progressing. We also saw some miracles as we tried
to use our 10 and 30 minute breaks to go outside and contact people!
Then after
that day, we went back to Bekasi and do splits on Saturday with another
companionship in Bekasi! That was way fun - I got to go with Elder Gomez, an
Elder from the Philippines. That was way fun. He's still pretty new, but a
great missionary. He was trained by my boy Elder Hansen, so of course he is way
fantastic. So anyways a lot of fun! We had a good time and we felt the Spirit
leading us.
But the thing is on Sunday- I was WAY tired. I was just
dead. Elder Johnson and I were walking around contacting that evening and I
felt like I almost fainted (then again it was also Fast Sunday haha)! But we
had a great Sunday! four simpatisan came! Brother B should be getting
baptized next week, so that is pretty exciting!
We had a pretty crazy experience and we kind of have a feeling that we've been getting phone calls
from an Angel haha. we don't know if anything will come from it, but there was
just too many coincidences, so we will follow up on that for sure haha. just
kind of a cool experience.
Whether or not that was from the Spirit guiding us or not, I
do know that the work we are doing is truly the work of God. I know that He
leads this work. I know that Jesus Christ is truly our Savior and He loves each
and every one of us. And because He loves us, He called Joseph Smith to be a
prophet so that the true and living Gospel of Jesus Christ was restored in its
fullness. I know that Christ leads this Church and I know He leads this work.
I'm so grateful for the chance I have to be part of it! It is incredible.
I love you all and I hope you all have an amazing week.
Elder Brown
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